1.
It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.
Peter the Great
I fervently wish to better the lives of my people, but I am embarrassed to admit that I have failed to improve myself.
2.
I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.
Madam C. J. Walker
I am not embarrassed by my previous circumstances. I am not embarrassed by my lowly origin.
3.
You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.
Joel Osteen
You were never intended to exist in a state of dejection, subjugation, culpability, censure, humiliation or unimportant. You were fashioned to be triumphant.
4.
I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
Carrie Fisher
5.
If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
J. C. Ryle
6.
It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
Raymond Carver
7.
Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.
Kurt Cobain
8.
If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.
Dirk Nowitzki
9.
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
J. K. Rowling
10.
If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
James Dean
11.
I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies
Tommy Kirk
12.
Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.
Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke
13.
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
Fanny Burney
14.
I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.
Kathryn Lasky
15.
They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
16.
You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.
Robert Thurman
17.
Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!
Phil McGraw
18.
Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.
Eva Green
20.
Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.
Marguerite de Navarre
21.
There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
Naomi Watts
23.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
Livy
24.
And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
Jack London
27.
What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.
Nizar Qabbani
28.
If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like
Muhammad
29.
I will only make pictures that I won't be ashamed to have my children see.
Louis B. Mayer
30.
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.
Stephen King
31.
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
Alexander Borodin
32.
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
George Orwell
33.
You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!
Anthony de Mello
35.
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
Jodie Foster
37.
I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.
Elle Macpherson
40.
Don't be ashamed if you don't like what others pretend to love
Emma Watson
41.
Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.
Susana Martinez
42.
I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before?
Jeremiah Denton
43.
Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
Brian Eno
44.
We are all incredibly different and rather than being something to be ashamed of, that's something to really celebrate.
Lissa Rankin
45.
Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.
Unknown
46.
I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time
Isaac Newton
48.
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.
Pope John Paul II
49.
There's nothing to be ashamed of here. Everyone's been with Carlito's sister!
Triple H
50.
Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?
Pietro Aretino